Fear is the friction in all transitions..

Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth..

All natural processes are long processes and they last..

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances..

Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up..

A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of li….

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying..

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up..

Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort th….

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live..

Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only t….

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names..

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken….

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us..

A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and s….

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you..

Just Listen an excerpt.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or h….

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a ….

Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand betwee….

Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our int….